IN Europe, the obsessive concern of policy makers shifted from Greece to Spain, with its ailing banks and brutally high bond yields.
Politically, as union power declined, the concerns of Democratic policy makers shifted from working-class issues like jobs and toward the concerns of upper-income constituents, like inflation, taxes and budget balancing.
Intel executives said the company had missed its projections because computer makers shifted to lower-priced chips, like the Atom processor that is used in low-cost mini-notebook PCs known as netbooks.
But the product at least pointed toward a category that has been neglected since hardware makers shifted focus away from MP3 players to smartphones.
So convinced is Nokia of the importance of services that it reorganised itself last year into two divisions: one to build handsets, and the other to provide its growing suite of services, called Ovi.At your serviceThere are several motivations for the gadget-makers' shift into services.
A bicycle maker shifts to building more food vending carts to sell to people who have lost their jobs.
Struck by the fortitude of the people he met, he found his own view of photography and of his role as an image-maker shifting: If the seed of intention behind photography is to make positive contributions to society, then it must do more than just witness.
At Dell, a PC-maker shifting towards services and software, Adriana Karaboutis, the chief information officer, says that she works closely with the marketing department: people there have developed applications which, once screened by the IT team, have ended up in Dell's internal and external app stores.
Both agencies wanted the account: Goodby lost Hyundai Motor America after a two-year run earlier this year, when the Korean car maker shifted its creative work to the World Marketing Group.
Batesville isn't the only casket maker shifting production down south.
